2018. január 10., szerda

Szimpla - 2017 (english)

The year 2017 is over, which was
really unique and eventful in Szimpla. We tried to collect a few
things, what happened in the past approximately 365 days, but as we had
even more events and visitors than the year before, we can only present
an rough outline in pictures, videos and figures what happened in
Szimpla last year.

Looking back on 2017: Szimpla Kert had more
than 1.2 million visitors, and the number of daytime visitors is
increasing. In 2016 we decided that we want to have visitors not only in
the evening or at night, but create a space which is attractive during
daytime, full of programs, with music, arts, markets or gastronomy,
theatre or literature, often carfree, happening also in the street in
front of us, and we can tell that this initiative has been successful és
ez úgy tűnik, sikerült is.

More than 260 thousand people visited
our website in 2017, our subsites had more than 700 thousand visitors.
Szimpla has almost 100 thousand followers in Facebook, and what is even
more astonishing that on Facebook our various videos were watched for
676 thousand minutes(!) altogether, plus, last but not least, for about
400 thousand minutes on YouTube. Szimpla had more than 4 million Google
searches, and 2.5 million wrote Szimpla kert, whcih is quite direct.
Including our new Szimpla Night Vibes DJ events, we had over 500 music
events, more, than 150 new videos, at least 200 live transmissions and
more than 60 new recorded songs, contibuting to the music life in
Hungary.

Besides, we organized Cycling Circuses where you could
find special design products and recycled, upcycled art, we presented
the Budapest Catalogue books, and we organized 48 farmers' markets, with
48 charity cooking events, where NGOs raised over 7 million forints. We
should not forget about our dog-themed markets, where the number of
four-legged visitors was 150 in average, of course accompanied by their
two-legged friends, which is a great success.

Bicycles were
rented from us over 800 times, and more than 50 pieces of art were
created in the Art Corner. In Szimpla Háztáji 21660 menues were sold in
2017, as well as 5415 croissants, 14440 sandwiches, 510 liters of
yoghurt and minimum 10 thousand eggs were used for cakes and treats,
omelettes and our other foods. Our new project is Szimpla Farmers'
Brunch, which has been extremely successful: we had at least 7500
visitors in 2017.

We organized two street festivals in Kazinczy
street together with the other places, where over 5000 people were
strolling, cycling, planting trees, in addition last year on the carfree
day we tried out, very successfully what is it like when the street is
closed for cars for a whole weekend, including the night. In addition,
we occupied the street for various other programs for another 12 days
during the year.

We
hope that this trend that we can expand our activities will continue
this year as well, and we will continue making our environment more
liveable. We hope that those who have not visited us will have the
opportunity to pop in, and those who have been to Szimpla return and we
can fulfil their expectations. Thank you for those who visited us last
year, our markets or fairs, our concerts, or just dropped in for mulled
wines or coctails any evening. Check out our videos and picture
galleries for 2017, they are worth seeing.